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Gaia People

Alberto Vecchiato

Astronomical Observatory of Torino

Alberto Vecchiato graduated in Physics at the University of Padova, and completed his PhD in Space Science and Technologies in 2001. He has a post-doctoral position at the Astronomical Observatory of Torino and works mainly on the development of the RAMOD project, which aims at formulating and implementing a Relativistic model for astrometric data reduction. He is a core member of both the Relativistic and Reference Frame Working Group and of the Simulation Working Group.

As a Physicist, he is mainly interested in the various ways of testing General Relativity with high-precision experiments, a subject that was studied in this article for the Gaia case.